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Re: Installation of Iceape(aka Seamonkey ) blocked in Debian 5



> On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:28:55 William Foster wrote:
> > I've just downloaded Debian 5 "Lenny" (stable), and installed it on the
> > second had drive on this secondary computer, where I have many linux disros
> > installed. I quite Like it as a Linux distribution, but I was disappointed
> > to find I could not install Iceape ( i.e. Seamonkey; my favorite
> > web-browser ).
> > On searching I found it had been effectively blocked/removed, due to a lack
> > of volunteers to solve compatability problems.  To my surprise there is
> > apparently very little call for it.

On 17.09.09 15:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Yes, upstream has effectively abandoned it, and many users have been moving to 
> iceweasel[1].  It was removed from Lenny because it just wasn't release-
> quality.

well, it's not being officially maintained by mozilla foundation anymore,
but it's still maintained and supported.
 
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